The Amberjack Assessment – Full Guide, Free Practice, and Tips [2024]

Most: B

Least: D

This question aims to measure the Creative Force pillar. The core of the question revolves around your approach to innovation and change.

Let’s review each response:

Answer A – Stick to your mentor’s recommendation for now. You can look into other ways of doing things when you gain some more experience.

This response lacks some flexibility and self-confidence. The way you approach problems should not depend on your experience, rather the objective details of the case. Being open to learning and adapting to new methods is always desirable, even if you lack experience. Remember that the very aim of the Amberjack Assessment is to eliminate the effect of past experience and knowledge.

Answer B – Approach your colleagues and ask them for the reasons they are doing things in this manner.

This is the most recommended response. It demonstrates openness to change and a healthy approach to innovation. By asking for your colleagues’ feedback, you will be able to better understand what solutions and methods are best for each scenario, what will allow you, as you gain more experience, to make such informed decisions on your own.

Answer C – Send an email to your mentor, as you want to make sure that team members are following the company’s protocols.

This response is rather similar in essence to answer A. It shows that you rely mostly on authority as your guide to decision making, rather than on the specific, relevant case at hand. However, this response is not as bad as response D, as it at least demonstrates modesty and willingness to self-doubt.

Answer D – Gently inform your colleagues that they are doing their work the wrong way and suggest giving them a brief on the correct method.

This is the least recommended response. It demonstrates a rigid mindset that lacks openness to new ideas and approaches. This mindset eventually results in a behavior that may be considered arrogant, as you determine your colleagues’ actions as incorrect in advance, before allowing them to comment.

Most: D

Least: A

This question measures two pillars: Grit and Applied Intellect. The core of the question is twofold:

1. How motivated and committed are you to achieve your goals in the face of setbacks (Grit).
2. How you socially and emotionally operate within a team (Applied Intellect).

A table will help exemplify this:

Let’s review each response:

Answer A – It’s best not to get involved with informal conversations you are not part of. Do what you can to reach your own revenue goals.

This is the least recommended response as it is low on both social intelligence and grit. “Doing what you can” demonstrates a somewhat passive approach that is set on maintaining roughly the same effort and methods of work that have been taken thus far. Additionally, by ignoring your teammates’ situation, you are taking a passive approach in that sense as well.

Answer B – Stay overtime to make sure your personal goals are met, so you are not held accountable for the entire team’s lack of performance.

This response demonstrates high levels of grit. However, by being selfish and taking care of yourself alone, it shows low social and emotional intelligence.

Answer C – Volunteer to approach your team leader on behalf of the whole team and ask for an extension to meet your goals.

This response is opposite to response C. It demonstrates care for your team and high social and emotional intelligence, but completely lacks grit. By requesting to extend the time to meet your goals you are not tackling the problem, rather attempting to avert it.

Answer D – Set up a team meeting the following day to share ideas on how everyone can improve their work and meet their goals.

This is the most recommended response. It demonstrates both grit – motivation to take the initiative and overcome a challenge, AND social intelligence, by keeping everyone involved and helping the team rather than yourself.

The correct answer is 2.

To find the IceBerg’s revenue as a percentage of all three brands, we will:

1. Sum up the monthly revenue of each brand.
2. Sum up the total revenue of all three brands.
3. Find the percentage of each brand of this total.

Results are shown in the table below:

IceBerg’s revenue (850) accounts for approximately 22.8% of the total revenue of all three brands (1,710 + 850 + 1,160).

The correct answer is 1.

While this question contains a lot of information, most of it is irrelevant. What interests us is the overall cost of each training program.

That can be calculated as follows:

Overall Cost = 125 x [Cost per Employee] x [1 – Discount] + [Registration Fee]

Results are shown in the table below:

So, Storytelling training is the cheapest option at $22,000.

The correct answer is 1.

According to the text:

“Over the past two decades…senior management increasingly view…emotional intelligence as crucial for effective leadership and have made these skills a key requirement in their search for candidates.”

The word “increasingly” indicates that senior management view emotional intelligence as more crucial for effective leadership than twenty years ago.

The correct answer is 3.

According to the text: “…transformations also require the commitment and involvement of the entire organization to prevail – managers and employees alike.

Hence, a digital transformation imposed by senior management will likely be unsuccessful, according to the text. Similarly, a transformation which leaves senior management behind (as in answer 4) is also likely to fail.